Merck's 1899 Manual
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Chapter 173 : ~Inflammation.~--_See also, Bronchitis, Pleuritis, etc. Also list of Antiphlogistics._
~Inflammation.~--_See also, Bronchitis, Pleuritis, etc. Also list of Antiphlogistics._
Acetanilid.
Acid, Salicylic: most valuable.
Aconite: at the commencement of all inflammations, superficial or deep-seated: best given in small doses frequently repeated until pulse and temperature are reduced.
Alcohol: as antipyretic and stimulant, especially useful in blood-poisoning.
Alkalies.
Ammonium Chloride.
Ammonium Tartrate.
Antimony: 10 to 15 min. of vinum antimonii frequently repeated at commencement.
Arnica.
a.r.s.enic.
Astringents.
Atropine.
Barium Chloride.
Belladonna: in gouty and rheumatic inflammation and cyst.i.tis.
Blisters.
Borax.
Bryonia: in serous inflammations, after heart or pulse lowered by aconite.
Cannabis Indica: in chronic types.
Chloral Hydrate: when temperature is high and much delirium.
Cocaine Hydrochlorate: in acute types.
Cod-Liver Oil: in chronic inflammation.
Colchicine.
Cold.
Copaiba.
Digitalis.
Electricity.
Ergot.
Exalgin.
Flaxseed: for inflamed mucous membranes.
Fomentations.
Gelsemium.
Hop Poultice.
Ice: locally applied.
Ichthalbin: internally.
Ichthyol: locally.
Iodine: locally.
Lead.
Leeches.
Magnesium Sulphate.
Mercury: in deep-seated inflammations, especially those of serous membranes, and iritis, and syphilitic cases.
Mercury inunctions.
Neurodin.
Nitrates.
Opium: exceedingly useful to check it at commencement, and relieve pain afterwards.
Phosphorus.
Pilocarpine.
Poultices.
Pulsatilla: when purulent discharge from eyes, ears or nose and in epididymitis.
Purgatives.